Research Briefs

Renewable energy could power most of India by 2040, reducing cost and emissions By Leah Burrows | Original Article on SEAS Website November 17, 2020 As the second most populated country on the planet (and seventh largest in area), India has enormous...

Summary of New Project Publication for Non-Specialists Publication: ChengHe Guan and Ann Forsyth. In press (2020). “The influence of urban form and socio-demographics on active transport: A 40 neighborhoods study in Chengdu, China”. Journal of Transport...

Summary of New Project Publication for Non-Specialists Publication: Archana Dayalu, J. William Munger, Yuxuan Wang, Steven C. Wofsy, Yu Zhao, Thomas Nehrkorn, Chris P. Nielsen, Michael B. McElroy, and Rachel Chang. 2020. “ Evaluating China's anthropogenic...

Summary of New Project Publication for Non-Specialists Hu, Wenhao, Mun S. Ho, and Jing Cao. " Energy consumption of urban households in China ." China Economic Review 58 (Dec 2019) This paper is co-authored by three Harvard-China Project affiliates. The...

Summary of New Project Publications for Non-Specialists Publication: Gao et al. 2020. “ China's emission control strategies have suppressed unfavorable influences of climate on wintertime PM 2.5 concentrations in Beijing since 2002 .” Atmospheric...

Offshore wind farms could power much of coastal China By Leah Burrows | Original Article Harvard University John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences View the Harvard-China Project Paper Under the Paris Climate Agreement, China committed...

Study finds that as cities become wealthier, per capita emissions drop China, the world’s largest carbon emitter today, may be on track to meet its emission goals up to a decade early, according to a recent study on the cover of Nature Sustainability led...

Reducing CO2 concentrations and air pollution in the atmosphere By Leah Burrows April 8, 2019 If we’re going to limit global temperature increases to 2 degrees above pre-industrial levels, as laid out in the Paris Climate Agreement, it’s going to take a...

China Project research offers a strategy for reducing CO 2 emissions and improving air quality with electric vehicles in Beijing Read the article in Nature Energy By Leah Burrows, SEAS Communications Electric vehicles play a key role in China’s plan to...